>> otherwise you make T a special case when parsing the nodelist and
  >> speaciual cases are yucky and tend to cause problems in the
  >> future,

 ac> If the nodelist flag begins in T and contains non-alphabetic
 ac> characters or isn't 3 characters long then it must be something
 ac> else - right?

yeah, that's exactly what I mean by a special case.

I can use use a lookup table to resolve all the other flags, but the Txx ones
need special treatment, (or an extre 2300 entrues in the lookup table)

 -=> Bye <=-

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